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25 May 2014

Business, Organizations, Balance is Essential

Building The Next Pixar | Fast Company | Business + Innovation: "....Most important, though, is awareness and even embrace of potential failure. "Ed Catmull says the purpose of an organization isn’t stability, it’s balance," says Rowghani. "Stability is when you sort of pour concrete around something and just bolt it down. Balance is a state where if you think about yoga, you’re standing on one leg and you’re swaying left and right in these tiny little movements, but you’re able to stay balanced.” In any organization, there are various factions intent on advancing their own interests--product, marketing, communications, sales--which may or may not align. And here is where balance is essential....."